1. 1960s s social movements

2. Latino Civil Rights Movement
1960s Latino population 3 mil – 9 mil
Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta
United Farm Workers
Strikes, boycotts, fasting, nonviolence

4. “Brown Power” Bilingual Education (reduce high school dropout rate)
Brown Berets lead school walkouts
Cultural Pride, Chicano Studies
LULAC
La Raza Unida
MAPA

6. American Indian Movement
More militant strategies
Trail of Broken Treaties March
Occupied BIA building, destroyed records
Hostage standoff at Wounded Knee

9. Women’s Rights & New Feminism
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
NOW
Gloria Steinem & Ms. magazine

11. Equal Rights Amendment
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Proposed by Congress 1972
Need 38 states to ratify
Only 35 did by 7 year deadline
Backlash by “New Right”

14. Roe v. Wade
NOW and other groups worked for women’s right to have an abortion
1973 Supreme Court ruled that right to privacy protects right to choose abortion in first trimester
The country is divided on the issue: today about 50% say pro-choice, 45% say pro-life